Preps signing Letters of Intent

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Many area high school athletes will sign National Letters of Intent to plays sports in college.

City High

Three Little Hawks will sign their letters at 2:45 p.m. Thursday in the City High Commons.

? JOSH CROSBY: Crosby will sign to play baseball at Minnesota State. The senior catcher and third baseman is a three-year starter and hit .336 as a sophomore. He earned all-conference, all-district and all-state honors as a junior, hitting .467 with five home runs, 16 doubles and 38 RBIs, and was the Press-Citizen Position Player of the Year. He holds the school record for career doubles with 52.

? BRIE HIGHTSHOE: Hightshoe will sign to play softball at St. Cloud State in Minnesota. The shortstop earned all-conference honors as a sophomore and hit .333 with 24 stolen bases. She hit .417 with 25 RBIs and 33 stolen bases her junior year.

? ABBY SAEHLER: Saehler will sign to play volleyball at Wingate University. The senior middle hitter earned all-conference honors as a senior with a .357 kill efficiency, and led the Little Hawks with .79 blocks per set. She was an all-state honorable mention as a junior with a .326 kill efficiency and led the team with .5 blocks per set. Also, she was a state track qualifier in the high jump as a junior.

West High

Three West athletes will sign letters at 8 a.m. at the West High athletic office, with a reception at 3:30 p.m. in the cafeteria.

? ALLY DISTERHOFT: Disterhoft will sign to play basketball at Iowa. The 6-foot swing player earned first-team all-state honors her sophomore and junior seasons. As a junior she averaged 16.9 points per game and shot 62.2 percent from the floor, 42 percent from 3-point range and 74 percent from the free-throw line. She was second on the team in assists and first in steals. She also earned all-conference honors in volleyball as a senior.

? DONDRE ALEXANDER: Alexander will sign to play basketball at Southern Mississippi. The 6-foot-3 junior forward averaged 10 points and 3.0 rebounds as a sophomore, and 16 points and 4.6 rebounds as a junior. He helped lead the Trojans to an undefeated season and earned first-team all-state honors.

? JEREMY CRONK: The West High graduate and current North Iowa Community College baseball player will sign with Ohio University. The pitcher went 4-1 with a 3.64 earned-run average with 49 strikeouts in 54 1/3 innings for the Trojans his sophomore year.

Solon

? KARA MISEL: The senior third baseman announced she will walk on to the Iowa softball team. Misel hit .519 with 13 homers, 16 doubles, 52 RBIs and scored 54 runs for the Spartans. The cleanup hitter had a .941 slugging percentage.

"I want to look into chemistry, biology, mathematics and kind of see where that takes me," Misel said in explaining why she chose Iowa. "I love pharmaceuticals, my mom's a pharmacist, but I like research. I'm real interested in how it all works.

"I was in contact with pretty much the entire Iowa Conference, but it all kind of boiled down to the academics I wanted. That's what Iowa had to offer."

? ALYSSA RICKELS: The senior will sign to play softball for Minnesota State. Rickels hit second in the Spartan lineup and finished the season with a .403 batting average, 20 stolen bases and 28 RBIs. Former teammate Emily Bransky plays for the Mavericks.

"It kind of all fell into place," Rickels said. "It kind of started with Emily going up there. The coaches talked to me and then I went to camp. I really liked it. It's kind of like the cliché: you know when you know. I took a couple visits and made my decision."

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Preps signing Letters of Intent

Many area high school athletes will sign National Letters of Intent to plays sports in college. Three Little Hawks will sign their letters at 2:45 p.m. Thursday in the City High Commons. JOSH CROSBY: